Cheddar cheese fat burner..........................NOT!!!!

MeliciousMelis
MeliciousMelis Posts: 458 Member
edited October 2024 in Motivation and Support
I just had to share this....please take a minute to read if you want some motivation :happy:

http://www.bloomriverside.com/2012/cheddar-cheese-the-great-fat-burner/


Cheddar Cheese- the great fat burner!
Posted on Thursday, January 5th, 2012 at 5:43 pm.
Written by April MacLean

No. Cheddar cheese does not burn fat. But the woman next to me at Trader Joes today sure seemed to think so.



She picked up a block and turned to her husband, adamantly insisting: “We have to get this. I read that cheddar cheese is great for melting fat”.



I sat there some time before being stupefied turned into indignance. Lately, I’ve been baffled over the articles I come across listing ‘superfoods that melt fat’ or ‘negative calorie foods’, and the likes. What happened to common sense? To set the record straight:



There are no magic, fat melting foods, no negative calorie foods. What is magic is taking care of yourself. Making good choices, respecting your body, and using it’s wondrous systems to do what they were created to do: move and thrive.



If you have resolved to be a better ‘you’ this year, congratulations and warning; it’s a noble cause with a tendency to do this:



This is for a few obvious reasons:

The first is that nothing has changed from Dec. 31 to Jan 1. I know it’s a fun idea- new year, new changes! However, change comes because you are ready to eradicate bad habits, not because the calendar changed. So many people set themselves up for failure with a huge list of all the wonderful things they are going to do without asking themselves ‘but how am I any more ready than I was yesterday?’.

The second reason is not your fault: You are bombarded with conflicting information every single day. Fat is good/ fat is bad, eat carbs/ dont, you need strength training/ it makes you bulk up, etc, etc. It’s absolutely dreadful. (for a little truth on these subjects, check this out: These are diet lies: http://www.bloomriverside.com/2012/if-you-want-to-eat-well-avoid-these-lies/.)



But you know more than you do! What we’ve lost is common sense. We’ve become dependent on magazines, internet, and TV to tell us what’s what, and lost some really basic reasoning.



Advice: set small, sustainable goals, and just a few. It’s all about baby steps. In 2004, I weight 198 pounds. I now weigh 138. It’s not my ideal weight and I am still working on being my healthiest, but it’s a heck of a lot better than 198. And although you can certainly lose weight much, much faster than I did (learn from my mistakes, I floundered and yo-yo’d a lot), the weight ultimately came off when I started using my brain and doing tiny things at a time. It’s all about common sense!

Examples: stop drinking soda, no more white flour, nothing fried, one more veggie a day, keep a food journal, take a walk, join a dance or fitness class. Pick ONE, not all. Nail that one, move on to the next. You’re not a superhero, at least not that way- so be kind to yourself, and success will come. There is, of course, one resolution more important than any other. That post is for tomorrow.



Happy New Year!

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